Leadership & management skills
In the webinar “Meetings: From Ordinary to Extraordinary,” effectiveness expert Paul Axtell explains how to communicate to get the desired results out of everyday team meetings—namely, to clarify issues, sharpen focus, set direction, and move key goals forward. Do you feel heard? Do people build upon your comments? Consider that there is a way...
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An article in bizjournals.com made a very good point. “While experience is a great teacher, it often means that we tend to continue what we have done in the past. Professional development opens us up to new possibilities, strategies, knowledge and skill areas. It also goes on to enumerate why if you are an...
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Sales and marketing are in constant flux, and that is truer now than ever. With competitors using real-time analytics to manage their digital sales strategies, it’s imperative that you know right away which tactics are working and which aren’t—and have a backup plan to turn negative results around fast. The new buzz phrase is...
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You may have heard that, when it comes to finding the perfect employee, behavioral interviews are much more effective than traditional interviews. If you knew how much better they are, you might resolve to finally learn to implement this hiring approach. Behavioral interviews are 500 percent better than traditional interviews at securing the...
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Research via Images Here is a succinct view of what research surveyed a total of 318 businesswomen from 19 different countries and 30 different industries. The respondents on average were 48-years old, with the large majority (75 percent) indicating that they were either mid- or senior-level leaders. This research throws light on whether women...
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There have always been these lengthy conversations about how women have to work extra hard, sacrifice a lot more and often battle uncomfortable situations to reach the glass ceiling; let alone break it. Many a times, women don’t have the right type of support systems that they need to grow in a professional space...
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by Dominic Barton, Dennis Carey, and Ram Charan An agenda for the talent-first CEO In tumultuous times, a company’s talent is its most valuable and reliable asset. What does it take to lead an organization that truly unleashes its human capital? In our combined 90 years of advising CEOs and their boards, the three...
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A 2011 study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology has found conclusively those investments in the superior human capital generates better performance by the company. This should also answer the question to WHY employee engagement is needed, but it does not answer the question of HOW. Employees also have to feel that the work...
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As the Millennial Generation overtakes the workforce from the Baby Boomers and Generation X, the new technologies are remaking the workplace. This change of the business world is reshaping the work nature and is ushering in a need for new and updated management strategies. So how do you manage the Millennial Generation effectively? According...
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A competitive and well-designed compensation system is a cornerstone of employee recruitment and retention for most organizations. If you’ve ever lost a key employee because you weren’t paying them enough, you know the pain of not only losing a top recruit but also having failed to discover problems that could have been solved earlier...
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